Mill your own fresh, nutritious flours guided by profiles and grinding tips for over 30 types of grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds—then savor their unique flavors and textures in 100 tantalizing recipes.
The reasons to mill your own flour are plentiful. Home-ground flour is fresher, nutrient-dense, safer from cross-contamination with allergens, and free from preservatives and chemicals. It also offers a diversity of new flavors and gluten-free options. Plus, grinding flour at home is surprisingly easy, versatile, and inexpensive.
In The Homemade Flour Cookbook, author Erin Alderson provides an overview of home milling equipment—including electric and non-electric grinders, food processors, blenders, and even coffee grinders—followed by flour-ingredient profiles and an abundance of sweet and savory recipes for enjoying your homemade flour.
Discover a great wide world of culinary possibilities with flours made from glorious grains such as barley, kamut, einkorn, and wheat berries; gluten-free grains including amaranth, quinoa, oats, and buckwheat; lovely legumes like chickpeas, black beans, and lentils; and nourishing nuts and seeds such as flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, and walnuts. Each profile describes the ingredient’s distinct flavor and culinary history, with tips on where to find it and how to grind it and cook with it.
Accompanied by gorgeous photography, the recipes include:
- French Toast with Rye Bread and Bourbon Cherries
- Blueberry Amaranth Muffins
- Sweet Corn and Ricotta Ravioli with Butter Basil Sauce
- Tomato Basil Socca Pizza
- Green Pea Flour and Zucchini Fritters with Dill Yogurt Dip
- Cheddar Jalapeno Quesadillas with Quinoa Tortillas
- Spelt Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls
- Berry Cobbler with Oat Dumplings
- Angel Food Cake with Rice Flour
- Lemon Pistachio Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ditch the overprocessed, preservative-filled store-bought flour. Add delicious variety to your diet and save money by making your own wholesome flour at home!
Erin Alderson is the recipe developer, photographer, and voice behind the whole foods, vegetarian blog Naturally Ella. Erin started blogging on a whim in 2007 as a healthy baking blog but has since then grown into a thriving seasonal, whole foods resource site. She grew up in a traditional middle class family that had a diet largely subsistent on fast food. When Erin’s father suffered a massive heart attack, she began to question her own health and eating habits. Since then, she has ditched processed foods in lieu of whole foods. Erin is a large proponent of local agriculture and seasonal eating, which has become a large part of the Naturally Ella blog. Erin is also the author of The Homemade Flour Cookbook (Fair Winds Press). naturallyella.com
